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#197- Pink Grapefruit Skies (1999)
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Happy little acoustic ditty
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Charts
Peak #315
Peak in subgenre #28
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1998
Uploaded
December 21, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.7 MB 128 kbps 2:59
Story behind the song
This is a happy ditty written on the spot to test out my 4 track cassette recorder back in 1999. Only this tune and Angeline were recorded on the old 4 track I no longer own. Most other recordings are from a digital 16 track or a stereo cassette. Mp3 listeners gave this a 3.5 out of 5.0--"Cute ditty""Pretty good for on the spot. Cute" "Like the way you phrase vocals, good delivery"
Lyrics
Walking down the road I'm feeling kind of old Things ain't what they seem And I'm running down a dream Gonna watch that sun go down With the glowin' all around Then I see pink grapefruit sky And I'm happy I'm alive No matter what goes wrong Gonna sing my lucky song If the sky it turns to gray Still I'll have another day Holes in my soul Carrying some blues Walk the sad old town Buildings wear a frown Look up into the sky -scrapers hurt my eye I'll wait for the citrus sun Wait till the day is done No matter what goes wrong Gonna sing my lucky song If the sky it turns to gray Still I'll have another day Walking down the road I'm feeling kind of young Things ain't what they seem But still can have some fun Gonna watch that sun go down With the glowng all around Waiting for pink grapefruit skies And I'm happy I'm alive Waiting for pink grapefruit skies Waiting for pink grapefruit skies Waitng for baby, baby Pink grapefruit skies Sing a lucky song
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